Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 3, 2025
Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, died on April 18 in Aspinwall, Pa. She was 104.
Her death, in a Veterans Affairs hospice facility, was confirmed by her daughter Margaret Breines.
A lover of puzzles and crosswords while growing up in Pittsburgh during the Great Depression, Mrs. Parsons deciphered German military messages that had been . . .
